The FBI Raid: Pearl Harbor or a version of the Reichstag fire?
Will the FBI’s raid result in the constitutional version of America’s response to Pearl Harbor or the German response to the Reichstag fire?
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Tag: Constitution
West Virginia v. EPA Part I: Roberts Puts A Band-Aid On The Regulatory State
The Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA is being hailed by some as a “blockbuster” that put a brake on America’s regulatory state. The Court held that the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded the limits of the power that Congress delegated to it when the EPA drafted a regulation,
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Bookworm Beat 6/27/22 — special Supreme Court meme edition
With the Supreme Court whipping out decisions and Democrats still on a rampage, I’ve got too many memes to wait until Friday. A caveat goes with the next one: The Supreme Court was addressing a very specific law. However, the principles laid out mark the death knell of red flag
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Dobbs: A return to the rule of constitutional law
The Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision represents a return to constitutional law — and if Dems hate it, there’s a constitutional amendment process to change it.
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Naomi Wolf nails it on lockdowns and totalitarianism
Naomi Wolf discovered the Bill of Rights during the Bush years and believes in it regardless of which party controls Washington, D.C. Longtime blog readers know that I attended high school with Naomi Wolf. She was a year behind me, but a lot of her friends were in my year
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If the Senate cooperates, the Constitution offers an easy path to a Trump victory
Pence could still save the day, but the 12th Amendment has a Trump-friendly remedy if Senators refuse to accept Electoral votes. I’m willing to admit up front that mine could be a whackadoodle theory. I’m not a constitutional scholar and I was hopped up on caffeine and really tired when
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2020 & the Great Convergence I: Tolerance
2020 is the year when all bad things converge to put our nation under a threat the likes of which we have not seen since 1861. 2020 is the year when all bad things converge — the radical socialist movement, the weaponized victim’s groups, critical theory, the legacy of partisan
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The October Term 2019 Supreme Court Is A Disaster
Any hope that conservatives had, that a moderately right-leaning Court would take the Supreme Court out of politics back into its proper sphere of deciding cases in respect of the original intent of our Founders and past legislators, is gone. We have John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch to hold accountable
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Tempest in a Tweet Pot
The left has two missions. Defeat Trump and stop Bill Barr before he exposes the worst political scandal in our nation’s history. Democrats are trying to accomplish both with the Roger Stone sentencing fiasco. But that is hardly the only bizarre twist and turn to this story. Roger Stone’s prosecution
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History, Holidays & Observances on January 22
Major Events: Battle of Rorke’s Drift, Supreme Court discovers a constitutional right to abortion Notable Events: Battle of Basing, Swiss Guards, CIA, Apple’s Superbowl commercial, Beit Lid Massacre, Evo Morales, Born: Ibn Taymiyyah, Ivan the Great, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Donne, William Kidd, Lord Byron, D.W. Griffith, Irving Kristol,
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History, Holidays and Observances on January 17: The Battle of Cowpens
Holidays & Observances: Feast of Anthony the Great Major Events: The Battle of Cowpens Notable Events: Menorca, St. Marcellus’ flood, Avignon Popes, Huguenots, Mahdist War, Monte Cassino, Raoul Wallenberg, Palomares Incident, Born: Antonio del Pollaiolo, Benjamin Franklin, Anne Brontë, Al Capone, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Muhammad Ali, Died: Theodosius
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History, Holidays & Observances on January 16
The Roman Empire, Ivan the Terrible, Council of Nablus, Medici Bank, Don Quixote, Act of Union, Midnight Battle, Civil Service, Samoa, Iran Major Events on January 16 27 B.C. – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the end of the Roman Republic
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On Soleimani’s death, the Democrats are looking to an imaginary constitution
Democrats misunderstand the Constitution when they contend that the president lacks Constitutional power to deal with a sudden attack against America. Oona A Hathaway, a professor of International Law at Yale, writes at The Atlantic that “The Soleimani Strike Defied the U.S. Constitution.” According to her, our Constitution required that
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Bookworm Podcast: Even if Trump is as bad NeverTrumpers say, I’ll still support him
Even accepting the NeverTrumper’s claim that Trump is corrupt and bad, if you look at core political principles, he comes out far ahead of the opposition. My latest podcast is up and running. You can listen to it through the audio embed below, or at LibSyn, or through Apple Podcasts. You
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Even if Trump is as bad as the NeverTrumpers say, I’d still vote for him
Even accepting the NeverTrumper’s claim that Trump is corrupt and bad, if you look at core political principles, he comes out far ahead of the opposition. One of my very dear friends, a lifelong conservative, has turned into a NeverTrumper. He loathes Trump, to the point at which he wishes
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